can someone explain to me this whole ANTI DEPRESSANT time we are in?

Question

i dont know anyone whos on anti depressants or anyone who needs them or even why any one takes them, so i would like someone to explain why u need them, what makes you need them, that whole sort of thing,

to me LIFE SUCKS, DEAL WITH IT!!!!
stop friggin booohooing about life.
one of my away messages is "thats the game, stop lookin for a fair call" meanin life sucks deal with it.
does any one else feel these people need to grow up and deal with their own problems like grown men and women and stop thinking they need a pill to alter themselves, some body pleeeese tell me how these pills are nessassary and better than a smack in the head and a stern yelling at the grow the f up and deal with life we all got problems only some choose to cry about it. real answers would be apreciated

to the first loser who answerd i said right in my question, i dont know sh*t about it and then proceded to give my opinion, so its obvious that you can not read, and along with taking pills to make your self feel better you also feel the need to put others down, i guess we all see who the true @sshole is dont we, and now i will laugh at u for being such a loser that u have nohtin to be happy about in life and everything sucks so bad that u need to pop pills. maybe if you were cool and had a life and some friends you wouldnt feel the way you do, but since u r a total tool you should prolly find the nearest building and take a jump, the world would be a better place trust me, no one cares about u, and even you know it every time u open that bottle to grab a pill.

Answer 1

Some respect please. It goes both ways.

My history, as a young person and teen I was fine, felt fine, was able to think, to reason, to be positive in my actions.
My 20's were another story. The man I married came back from Nam as crazy as a loon. Beatings and rapes and so many injuries and a whole pile of stress took its toll. Even though I moved far away from this guy, I have had difficulty with my thought process, my abilities to think and to reason, and to remember. Sadness took over my days and nights, and I started having flashbacks of all the violence. Eating and sleeping became difficult, too.
To address these things that had taken over my life, I tried numerous things to overcome it, to think my way out of it, to try to go on with my life. But the symptoms were always there in the background. Then my body began having some strange illness and reactions to foods I'd never been allergic to before. Dr.s didn't know what to do for me.
I went to a counselor who helped me to understand how my body and my mind work together....or not. The counselor felt there was a need for me to see a specialist, so reluctantly I went, determined that no drug would enter my body, not even aspirin.
As tests were run and my history was taken, the Dr sat me down to explain. When I was young my brain was normal and it worked normally for me. As I lived in such extreme trauma to my body and mind for such an extended period of time, my brain literally changed its shape, and changed in its ability to function. Some of what it could do chemically before was no longer physically or chemically possible any more.
(Dr explained it was like diabetes - when the body no longer manufactures the required chemical - you have the ability to replace it with the medicine - and go on with a normal life)
Very hesitantly, I began taking the medication. The way this anti-depressant works, is that rather than replacing the chemical itself, it "jump starts" the body to produce what was missing. That is the reason for the delay between the time the med is taken and the time when a person senses the effect.
With time and a great deal of work on my part I, with the help of the anti-depressant medication, have been able to recover most of my mental functioning as well as maintaining the ability to be balanced in my emotions. I can again view the world as a positive place. As my brain began working again close to a normal functioning, my numerous body problems have gone away, and the flashbacks have gone away as well. I, today am physically and mentally able to function.
This was something that was impossible for me to accomplish without the medication. For an extended period of time, I also worked with a psychologist, as I was coached toward finding ways of thinking and managing my problems that worked much better, and it also helped me to resolve relational problems with others.

Check-out the movie "A Beautiful Mind". It might assist you in the meaning of what it is to try to think and act "normal" in a "normal world" by a real person who cannot do so without the use of constant medication. I came away thinking "He must be exhausted".

This is a real answer to your question.

Answer 2

I agree that life often sucks and most people should just deal with it. Anti Depressants arent for people who are just feeling sad. They are for people who are always or almost always really really really sad or depressed. It is a disease that depressed people have no control of and i think that to many people are taking anti depressants just because they dont feel uber happy. Often anti depressants are used for a while just to get out of this pit of sadness and to help the person try to feel happy. If anti deprssants werent given to many people they would end up commiting suicide. They are that sad. Also cutting is a big sign of depression and it is an escape from the emotional pain and all the worries so people just bleed it out. It doesnt even hurt when people are depressed it feels good when they are doing it and then it hurts the next day but it is all and escape from the real world. Also depression controls peoples lives and they just lose the will to live or stop caring abt lots of things and people who they used to love. It is a serious disease but I can understand your point of veiw and in some cases i totally agree with it but in other case i really think that it is good that there are such a thing as happy pills. : )

Answer 3

listen...to be clinically depressed and needing anti depressants is not the same as having the blues or being a cry-baby. A depressed person needs medication the same way a diabetic needs insulin. It is a chemical imbalance in the brain. Imagine walking through life with a very bad case of near-sightedness and not ever having had glasses. The world is fussy, and you struggle to make things out. You bump into things, you can't drive etc...Now imagine getting your first pair of correction lenses...Suddenly, the world makes sense...You se every minute detail around you...everything is brighter and makes more sense.
Taking medication when you are depressed is similar to this... Consider yourself lucky you do not have this condition. Depression is often hereditary. Don't judge what you can't understand, or have not taken to time to research...

Answer 4

Allright, i'll explain. when i was 15 my parents got divorced (yes many kids parents have gotten divorced i cn "deal" with it) After that i started having what you call "anxiety" attacks, where anything could set me off, didn't even have to be me getting mad, i had one on a soccer field after i made a winning goal. when i was 18 my father stopped talking to me for 6 months b/c of a lie his wife told him about me, where he wouldn't even listen to my side. When i was 16 i started going threw these times, that were weeks at a time where i couldnt enteract with human life. All i could do was sit in my room and cry. What happens in this time is everything that would go threw my head was a battle of being happy and being depressed. it really is a serious time. I would struggle so hard to pull out, trying to think of anything that would bring me happiness, like maybe flowers. but then the immediate next thought that would come to me would be.. yeah but flowers die so whats so great about them. In this point there is absolutly nothing anyone can do to help a person in this time. theres nothing they can do, excpet keep battling and not try something stupid like cutting themselves (yes i'v been there) or commiting suicide. When i was 17 i was put on antidepressents, and now I am.. not happy 24/7, but I am not ruled by my emotions and I'm not set back three years by some turn of events. When i'm on my medication I can look at life and say yeah, life sucks, deal with it. If I'm not I can only look at the world as, life sucks... kill yourself and escape... that is the difference between someone who is chronically deppressed and someone who isn't.

Answer 5

It is very obvious to me that you have not researched or do you understand what clinical depression really is.

It is NOT a boo hoo Im sad today feeling that comes and goes. It is a constant feeling of depression, guilt, nervousness, and a complete lack of motivation or care in the world.



This can have a very dramatic affect on someones life!!!! So hey If I can take a pill and all of a sudden life is worth living a gain then **** you for telling me Im wrong. ASSHOLE!!!!

WOW your an even bigger idiot than I first assumed. And your right the people reading this question DO KNOW who the asshole is ......******* moron

Answer 6

if i didnt take antidepressent i would have killed my self by now

and no my life didnt suck

taking antidepressents means i can actually live and function in the world instead of screaming and crying and not being able to get on with it

it s people like you who i wish could just experiance some bad mental health jusst for a week that way you can comment on these things

if you have never had these things you really can not comment

Answer 7

Life is certainly difficult, most would not
argue with that.
2 Timothy 3:1-5, Psalms 55:22.

Depressionisreal.org may explain.

Answer 8

Please don't breed.